Bangladesh trailed by 356 runs against India
September 21, 20242 Mins Read
Sports Desk: In the first match against India, the umpires announced the end of the third day before the scheduled time due to less than 10 overs of the third day's play. Before that, Bangladesh captain Shanto reached his half-century after 298 days. It was his 4th career fifty.

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The Bangladesh captain completed his Test fifty in November 2023. However, he later turned it into a century. He scored 105 runs against New Zealand in Sylhet. After that, no fifty was seen in 10 innings in the last 298 days. The maximum was 38 runs.

At the end of the day, Bangladesh collected 158 runs after losing 4 wickets. 357 more runs needed to win, two days left. Shanto is unbeaten on 51 runs and Shakib is unbeaten on 5 runs.

Earlier, Sadman and Zakir got off to a great start in the second innings after coming down to bat against the target of 515 runs given by India. Zakir-Saadman scored 56 runs on the scoreboard in 13 overs before tea break by batting in ODI mood. For the first time on Indian soil, the Bangladesh team scored fifty runs in the opening pair. Apart from this, it is the third fifty in the opening pair.

Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes scored 53 runs for the first time in Chittagong Test in 2010. However, the record of Bangladesh's highest runs opening pair against India is held by Nazmul Hossain Shanto and Zakir Hasan. The two scored 124 runs together in Chittagong Test in 2022.

But in the 17th over of the innings, Jasprit Bumrah was the victim of Jasprit Bumrah's 62 runs (33). Which is the record for the highest run scored by any opening pair of Bangladesh on Indian soil. Earlier, Bangladesh played three Tests on Indian soil. The highest score in the opening pair in 6 innings was Tamim Iqbal-Soumya Sarkar's 38 runs. This record was set by two batsmen in Hyderabad in 2017. Zakir Hasan and Sadman Islam set a new record behind them.

Earlier, India's two batsmen Rishov Pant and Shubman Gill attacked Bangladesh from the start of the third day. Gill became the first Indian batsman to score 100 in the innings after being dismissed for a wicket in the first innings against Bangladesh. And Pant's century came in the first match of his return after a gap of one and a half years.

In the end, India declared the innings at 287 runs. That is the target of 515 runs in front of Bangladesh.